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Shopon Hossin
Apr 06, 2022
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To what extent is the notion of cancel culture useful to defend the need for a democratization of the public debate on the reprehensible behavior of authors? And, at the same time, what are the risks linked to the indiscriminate use of this formula? Is Putin right Whatsapp Mobile Number List when he says that the West wants to push Russia out of Ukraine and make it even weaker? Or is it just paranoia? Finland may become more of a concern for Putin than Ukraine. Finland's neutrality was a victory for the Soviet Union after World War II. It is quite possible that the result of the attempt to move NATO away from the Russian borders will be Finland's entry into NATO. It is a crucial question. If by a weak Russia you mean a country that cannot play the same role as the Soviet Union in a US-led world order, Putin is right. If you mean that Russia will not be allowed to be part of the world order on its own terms as a sovereign power, I think he sees it that way too. Putin's problem is that he does not understand politics as anything more than Whatsapp Mobile Number List a competition between world powers. For him, political opposition to his power is also a way for the West to make Russia look weak in international relations. For him, Whatsapp Mobile Number List rights means the same thing: a weak Russia. That is why he prohibits movements in defense of human rights. The fact that a candidate who did not have Putin's support won the presidential elections in Ukraine is also a defeat for Russia. I don't think anyone can make him change his mind. We are in a worse situation than during the Cold War. Compared to the Cold War, there is a big difference between the global elites. The Cold War and the politics of détente were influenced by what Max Weber called the ethic of responsibility. Both sides thought the same during the Cold War: “We are cynical and spare no blows in politics. But our cynicism has a Whatsapp Mobile Number List purpose. We want to avoid nuclear war at all costs." This was the logic of politicians like Leonid Brezhnev and Richard Nixon. Both were callous and cynical to the end in their policies, but what they really wanted was to prevent nuclear-tipped missiles from taking off. The entire construction of the Cold War was based on preventing the destruction of the world by nuclear weapons. The elites of Russia,
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